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Now that Senate Democrats have indicated that they will not vote on whether to extend the Bush tax cuts before midterm elections, the biggest news in Washington

Emergent Biosolutions has announced that the federal government has extended a contract with the company to continue to produce anthrax vaccines. Emergent , which is based in Rockville MD, makes the vaccine in a Lansing bio-facility. The facility used to belong to the state of Michigan but was privatized by former Gov.

The inspectors general for 64 federal agencies are the government’s frontline against waste, fraud and abuse. It sounds like a salutary public service. But the

More on that NATO defense ministerial. Check out Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ take on the mood in Bratislava: Gates said several allies have indicated that

Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) just opened this morning’s hearing that’s supposed to be about oversight of the Department of

A former military interrogator who contributed to the manhunt for a senior Iraqi terrorist has urged the Senate Armed Services Committee staff to question Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal on what he knew about detainee abuse committed by troops in Iraq under his command.

When the history of the first Obama term is written, McDonough’s name will ring out. Despite an mundane-sounding position as chief of staff for the National

It might be going on five months since the Obama administration pledged to develop metrics ... that give you an idea of our success rate in Afghanistan, as

One thing that’s not conference-related: The New York Times reports that John Brennan, the controversial ex-CIA official who abruptly withdrew as Barack Obama’s

This is rather shocking, particularly for me, as a graduate of the Arizona public university system. The Huffington Post’s Dawn Teo reports that, despite being

Matthew Yglesias, making another version of his argument that the multiple veto points in the legislative branch overly empower the minority and make America

<p>The people who know Ed Rendell best aren&rsquo;t surprised when he speaks his mind. But Rendell&rsquo;s candor might have come as a shock to

In the days after the 2008 election, I fretted over the inclusion of a former senior CIA official named Jami Miscik on the Obama transition team’s intelligence

I asked Peter Galbraith, the deputy head of the United Nations’ mission to Afghanistan who was deposed for supporting a more rigorous U.N. role in opposing vote

Faking a marriage to get a green card? Be careful what you say on Facebook: Federal immigration authorities may use social networks to determine whether